Localisation of panel names

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Localisation of panel names

[Lochemage]

Dave,

First off, I appreciate that you chose to give wcDocker a try!

The panel titles and ID's are actually separate. It's just that when I
initialize a panel by default, I take the ID you gave it and graft it to
the title as well. Inside the create function of a panel, though, you can
change the title with myPanel.title("some new title"), which will not
effect the ID.

So, ideally, you would not localize the registered name of each panel
(their ID), you would only localize the title that appears once a panel is
created.

Unfortunately, that does not fix the fact that you still see the ID text in
the popup menu when right clicking to create new panels. To fix that, I
have just updated the code to allow you to specify the displayed title text
for the panel when registering it. This title text is independent of the
panel id, so you should be able to localize it. Your code should look like
this:

myDocker.registerPanelType('panelId', {
title: 'LocalizedTitle',
onCreate: function(...
});

Any time you change the language, you would need to change the title option
for each panel type and then save and restore the layout to refresh all
existing panels with their new titles.

myDocker.panelTypeInfo('panelId').title = 'newLocalizedTitle';

I hope this helps you out, let me know if you have any other suggestions.

• Lochemage

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Dave Page [email protected] wrote:

My app uses the Python Flask framework on the backend, with Flask-Babel to
provide localisation for the Python code and HTML/JS. I cannot seem to
figure out a reliable way of localising panel titles however, largely due
to the fact that they're stored in the panel layout and thus get restored
along with the layout when a user re-runs the app. That's fine if they're
using the same language as before, but not if they've switched (perhaps
because they're using a different browser).

It seems to me that an ID should be used when registering panels and when
saving/restoring the layout, so that I can re-assign the panel titles in
the correct language to the appropriate panels based on the ID. The ID
would then be stored in the layout data and be the primary identifier for
the panels, thus allowing the titles to be arbitrarily changed.

Is there a way to achieve this that I'm missing?

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[dpage]

That seems to work nicely - many thanks!